“All we need do is simply apply the magic formula of the golden age: technology, capital, power. And hey presto: TWIGBY. Simply mix together the reagents of technology, capital, and power freely — and human suffering will somehow turn to prosperity. But nothing could be further from the truth: the world is getting better, in the narrow ways in which it is, only because institutions, laws, and social contracts were painstakingly designed and built, by a generation of great, courageous minds, for it to do so.”